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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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